EP1929246A1 - Calibration of 3d field sensors - Google Patents
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- This invention relates generally to sensors that measure three- dimensional (3D) fields and, more specifically, relates to calibration of such sensors.
- a 3D field sensor is a sensor that measures direction and magnitude of some field in three-dimensional (3D) space.
- three orthogonal magnetometer elements can measure the direction and magnitude of the surrounding magnetic field.
- three orthogonal accelerometer elements can sense the direction and magnitude of acceleration or more importantly the gravitational field, which is typically indistinguishable from acceleration.
- a 3D field sensor includes at some level three single-dimensional sensors oriented appropriately relative to each other.
- the basic assumption in reconstructing the direction and magnitude of the measured field is that these elements are orthogonal to each other and have similar scales and bias of zero.
- Magnetometers are especially tricky, because external magnetic components attached to a device in which the magnetometer resides can result in scale and offset errors and can also effectively introduce linear dependence among the measuring axes.
- a traditional way of calibrating an electronic compass is by comparing measured headings to known headings and building a lookup table. To have an accurate heading, this process must be performed whenever the device is moved to a new location.
- 3D magnetometers are relatively new, and most calibration methods are for 2D sensors.
- Automatic l calibration methods have been based on Kalman filtering, in for example: Bruce Hoff, Ronald Azuma: “Autocalibration of an Electronic Compass in an Outdoor Augmented Reality System", Proceedings of IEEE and ACM Int'l Symposium on Augmented Reality 2000 (2000). This process still takes user input regarding known headings and is typically impractical for 3D field sensors.
- the present invention provides techniques that calibrate 3D field sensors.
- an apparatus- based method for calibration of a 3D field sensor.
- the method comprises accessing a plurality of samples, where the samples are from the 3D field sensor.
- Each sample represents a magnitude and an orientation of a three-dimensional field sensed by the 3D field sensor.
- a plurality of parameters is determined of an ellipsoid.
- the determination of the parameters is performed so that the ellipsoid fits the plurality of samples.
- a transformation is determined that transforms the ellipsoid into a . sphere. .
- the transformation is applied to a sample to create a transformed sample.
- a signal bearing medium that tangibly embodies a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a processor to perform operations for calibration of a three-dimensional (3D) field sensor.
- the operations include accessing a plurality of samples, where the samples from the 3D field sensor. Each sample represents a magnitude and an orientation of a three-dimensional field sensed by the 3D field sensor.
- a determination is made of a plurality of parameters of an ellipsoid. The determination of the plurality of parameters is performed so that the ellipsoid fits the plurality of samples.
- a transformation is determined that transforms the ellipsoid into a sphere. The transformation is applied to a sample to create a transformed sample.
- an apparatus in another exemplary embodiment, includes a means for measuring a three-dimensional (3D) field and for producing samples representing a magnitude and an orientation of the three-dimensional field.
- the apparatus also includes means for accessing a plurality of samples from the means for measuring.
- the apparatus further includes means, responsive to the plurality of samples, for determining a plurality of parameters of an ellipsoid, wherein the determining of the plurality of parameters is performed so that the ellipsoid fits the plurality of samples.
- the apparatus additionally has means for determining a transformation that transforms the ellipsoid into a sphere and has means for applying the transformation to a sample to create a transformed sample.
- another apparatus in a further exemplary embodiment, includes a three-dimensional (3D) field sensor.
- the 3D field sensor is adapted to produce field samples, where each field sample represents a magnitude and an orientation of a 3D field sensed by the 3D field sensor.
- the apparatus includes a calibration module adapted to access a plurality of the field samples from the 3D field sensor.
- the calibration module is adapted to use the plurality of samples to determine a plurality of parameters of an ellipsoid, wherein the determining the plurality of parameters operation is performed so that the ellipsoid fits the plurality of field samples.
- the calibration module is further adapted to determine a transformation that transforms the ellipsoid into a sphere and to apply the transformation to a field sample to create a transformed field sample.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an exemplary apparatus for calibrating a 3D field sensor
- FIG. 2 is an exemplary representation of a transformation from an ellipsoid to a sphere
- FIG. 3 is a flowchart of an exemplary method for calibrating a 3D field sensor
- FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an exemplary apparatus for calibrating a 3D field sensor
- the present disclosure is primarily directed to calibrations of 3D field sensors such as three-axis magnetometers (TAM), but in principle the techniques herein can be applied to any three-axis sensor that is used to sense a linear field. Examples of such sensors could be a three-axis accelerometer sensing the earth's gravity or a sensor sensing an electric field in three dimensions.
- TAM three-axis magnetometers
- a TAM can be used in conjunction with a three-axis accelerometer to obtain the orientation of the device in reference to the coordinate system set by the earth's gravitational and magnetic fields. In astronautical sciences, this is usually called the attitude of the spacecraft.
- the calibration of a device is dependent on the location of the device.
- the calibration can be subject to significant changes when the device is moved as little as few meters in some direction. It is not surprising that the direction and magnitude of the magnetic field can change in such a short range, especially within buildings. Paramagnetic elements in buildings can strengthen the earth's magnetic field in one direction and electrical wiring may induce new magnetic fields. This should not, however, affect the calibration of the device sensing the field.
- One explanation might be that the paramagnetic components inside the device, near the magnetometers, affect the calibration differently depending on the strength of the observed field. Whatever the reason, this is observed behavior and one more reason for easy adaptive calibration.
- exemplary calibration herein is based on the assumption that the magnetic field is constant for sufficiently long time windows. This is in contrast with the problem for satellite systems, where the spacecraft travels in orbit and the magnetic field changes significantly in the course of one revolution around the earth. In the satellite systems case, some model of the earth's magnetic field is usually used. There is a significant difference between calibration for satellite systems and calibration for handheld devices. Obviously, when the device is rotated within the magnetic field, the sensed field is rotated in the coordinate system of the device. When the actual field is assumed to have a constant direction, then the relative angles of consecutive measurements contain information. If, however, the direction of the outside field may have changed as well, then this information may be lost. We will show that with an assumption of constant field, it is easy to determine a decoupling matrix for the calibration as well.
- FIG. 1 an exemplary apparatus 100 is shown for calibrating a 3D field sensor 110.
- the 3D field sensor 110 includes three single-dimensional sensors 120-1, 120-2, and 120-3 (S 1 , s 2 , and s 3 , respectively), each of which is parallel to an axis C 1 , c 2 , or S 3 , which are orthogonal axes.
- Each sensor 120 measures an axial component of the field F , which has a magnitude, m, and a direction, d.
- the direction, d is related by the angles ⁇ , in the C 1 , c 2 plane, and ⁇ , an angle relative to the c 3 axis.
- the 3D field sensor 110 produces 3D field samples 130, each of which could comprise spherical values (n ⁇ , ⁇ , ⁇ ) or field values (x,y,z) for each sensor 120-1, 120-2, and 120-3, respectively. From field values (x,y,z), the magnitude and direction of the field can be determined. Note the 3D field sensor 110 is merely exemplary and used for exposition.
- the calibration module 140 operates on the 3D field samples 130 to create transformed 3D samples 150.
- the transformed 3D samples 150 should reduce or eliminate scale, offset, and other linear errors from the 3D field sensor 110.
- a sensor When a sensor is measuring a constant 3D field (e.g., field F ), it can be assumed that all measurements (e.g., as defined by 3D field samples 130) from the 3D field sensor 110 should fall on the unit sphere. For instance, when a 3D field sensor 110 is rotated in a constant field, the measurements from the sensor 110 should lie on a spherical surface. This is shown graphically in FIG. 2 as unit sphere 220. The vectors V 1 , V 2 , V 3 should all be the same length in this example, and therefore measurements from 3D field sensor 110 should fall on the unit sphere 220.
- misaligned sensor axes e.g., axes C 1 , C 2 , and c 3
- biases and scale errors will transform that sphere 220 into a quadratic surface, illustrated as exemplary ellipsoid 210, where one or more of the vectors V 1 ', V 2 , V 3 ' are not equivalent to their corresponding vectors V 15 V 25 V 3 .
- a quadratic surface e.g., ellipsoid
- a model of the distortion herein is therefore is a quadratic surface such as ellipsoid 210, and the calibration module 140 finds the transformation 230 that brings that ellipsoid 210 back to the unit sphere 220.
- This process may be performed adaptively and computationally effectively - in real time, as new samples are collected.
- a best fitting distortion e.g., ellipsoid 210
- the calibration can be done online, during normal operation, hidden from the user, and the calibration can adapt to changes automatically without need for explicit recalibration.
- the exemplary methods presented herein can determine the distortion (e.g., ellipsoid 210) from very little data, hi particular, a reasonable calibration can be obtained without ever actually rotating a device a full turn. This is advantageous for example in mobile phones, where the orientation of the device is such that the screen is always facing the user and rarely away from the user. Also, the present invention has removed any explicit calibration step (unless such a step is desired), as the calibration can be updated from almost random data during operation.
- 3D field sensor elements In addition to offset and scale errors, 3D field sensor elements often suffer from non-linearity.
- the disclosed methods herein are generally unable to correct for non-linearities and may work incorrectly if measurements from a 3D field sensor 110 are highly non-linear.
- FIG. 3 is a method 300 performed by the calibration module 140 for calibrating the 3D field sensor 110. More detailed description is given below. Briefly, the calibration module 140 accesses 3D field samples 130, which could be accessed for example from a memory (e.g., as shown in FIG. 6) or from the 3D field sensor 110. This occurs in step 310. The samples could be in any form suitable for describing a 3D field, but will typically be field values (x,y,z) for each sensor 120-1, 120-2, and 120-3, respectively. In step 320, the calibration module 140 determines parameters for an ellipsoid (e.g., ellipsoid 210 of FIG.
- an ellipsoid e.g., ellipsoid 210 of FIG.
- step 330 a transformation is determined that transforms the ellipsoid into a sphere (e.g., unit sphere 220).
- step 340 the transformation is applied to 3D field samples 130 to create transformed 3D samples 150.
- the transformed 3D samples 150 are therefore calibrated.
- a sensor measurement process can be modeled as the projection of the real field vector (e.g., field F ) on to the sensor axes and then adding an arbitrary offset.
- the measurement process of the unit field u is represented as fh - Cu + b + ⁇ , (1)
- ⁇ ' is a random variable
- ⁇ ' has some unwanted properties. Namely, if the random variables u and ⁇ are independent and zero mean, then So a least squares estimate may not be unbiased. Further ⁇ ' depends on the very parameters we are trying to estimate. On the other hand, it is not uncommon in engineering to make assumptions about errors and in the limit as ⁇ goes to zero this method provides the correction parameters exactly, so we ignore this problem and move on.
- step 330 of FIG. 3 the transformation (i.e., the matrix C) that maps the data points close to a unit sphere.
- the transformation matrix C may be applied to samples (in step 340 of FIG. 3) to create transformed samples.
- the parameters for the ellipsoid fit are then obtained from [0067] As shown above, the chosen parameters for the ellipsoid are selected such that the ellipsoid is the "best" fit to the 3D field samples 130. Earlier we saw that the linear least squares problem differs from the sphere transformation problem essentially in the way different sample points are weighted. The introduction of the forgetting factor, p , then further obscures the impact of the linearization to the optimality of the solution.
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- the final calibration is separated into multiple matrices, one of which is used to remove linear dependence among the different axes. That matrix is called the decoupling matrix.
- the decoupling matrix In an exemplary embodiment of the disclosed invention, all the matrices are combined and thus the decoupling effect is included in the transformation matrix D .
- this decoupling portion may not be available exactly because the outside magnetic field changes during calibration.
- the transformation matrix D can be modified to include multiple matrices, one of which would be a decoupling matrix.
- orientation sensors such as gyroscopes and accelerometers may be relied upon to give an approximate idea of an orientation of an apparatus to help guarantee that 3D field samples 130 are well representative of an ellipsoid.
- an exemplary apparatus 400 for calibrating a 3D field sensor 110 is shown.
- the 3D field sensor 110 produces 3D field samples 130 and the calibration module 140 produces transformed 3D samples 150 using the 3D field samples 130.
- an orientation sensor 410 produces orientation samples 420.
- a filtering module 430 uses the orientation samples 420 to determine selected 3D field samples 440.
- the calibration module 140 uses only the selected 3D field samples 440 for calibration of the 3D field sensor 110.
- the filtering module 430 filters out some of the 3D field samples 130 so that the selected 3D field samples 440 that are passed to the calibration module 140 will decrease the likelihood of degenerate data used by the calibration module 140 during calibration.
- the orientation sensor 410 can be one or several sensors that give orientation in three directions. For instance, one or more (typically three) gyroscopes or one or more (typically three) accelerometers may be used.
- the filtering module 430 is shown separately from the calibration module 140, portions or all of the filtering module 430 may be combined with the calibration module 140.
- FIG. 5 a flowchart is shown of an exemplary method 500 for filtering samples from a 3D field sensor 110.
- Method 500 is performed in this example by the filtering module 430.
- an orientation sample 420 is accessed from the 3D field sensor 510.
- the orientation sample 420 is accessed by the filtering module 430 directly from the orientation sensor 410, but may also be accessed from memory (see FIG. 6, for instance), or through any other technique for accessing a sample, hi step 520, an orientation is determined from one or more of the orientation samples 420.
- step 520 is performed by integrating the angular velocity (e.g., in an orientation samples 420) from the gyroscopes to get an orientation.
- the orientation from the gyroscopes is quantized to one of the three possible directions. Similar techniques could be used for other orientation sensors 410.
- Each possible direction is associated with one of three "buckets", which are used to hold selected 3D field samples 440 for calibration purposes. For calibration, all selected 3D field samples 440 in the buckets are used. For purposes of method 500, the buckets are used to reduce or prevent degenerate data.
- a current 3D field sample 130 (e.g., from a 3D field sensor 110 such as a magnetometer) is assigned to one of the buckets based on this quantized orientation.
- Each 3D field sample 130 is assigned to one of the three buckets, each of which represents one of the three orthogonal axes, hi step 550, it is determined if the bucket into which the current 3D field sample 130 is placed has the most 3D field samples.
- the 3D field samples 130 in the set of three buckets may be used for calibration and maintained in a memory, for instance.
- Gyroscopes can be used to track orientation of a device with some accuracy, but there is the problem of drift.
- a 3D magnetometer and 3D accelerometer together constitute a kind of orientation sensor. If the direction of gravitation and the earth's magnetic field are known relative to the device, then one can deduce the orientation of the device "relative to earth". This is, of course, exactly what is being done herein with magnetometers and the reason why the magnetometers need to be calibrated somewhat accurately. The absolute orientation from the 3D magnetometer and 3D accelerometer can then be used to compensate for the drift in the gyroscopes.
- Gyroscopes on the other hand provide accurate tracking of fast movements, which is typically impossible with just the other two sensors.
- a 3D accelerometer alone cannot give the orientation (e.g., because rotation around the axis of gravitation is invisible to the 3D accelerometer)
- a 3D accelerometer can give hints when the device surely has turned. So a 3D accelerometer would be another example of a sensor that could be used to select 3D field samples 440.
- a gyroscope drifts, a gyroscope is still accurate enough to virtually guarantee that the data from the 3D field samples 130 will not be degenerate. If the range of the data (e.g., the 3D field samples 130 from the 3D field sensor 110) is well defined, it should be possible to devise a method to select the selected 3D field samples 440 for the calibration algorithm that would not need extra sensors in the orientation sensor 410.
- FIG. 6 is a block diagram of an apparatus 600 including a 3D field sensor 640 and modules (660, 670) for calibration of the 3D field sensor 110.
- the apparatus 600 can be a mobile phone, a fitness monitoring device, a game controller, a wearable motion tracking device, or any device whose orientation in 3D space is of interest and which is rotated relatively frequently (e.g., enough to get an amount of 3D field samples 130 so that a ellipse can be fit to the 3D field samples 130).
- Apparatus 600 comprises a processor 610 that communicates with a memory 615, a 3D field sensor 620, and an orientation sensor 625.
- the memory 615 can be a static random access memory (RAM), dynamic RAM, registers, portions of a hard drive, or any memory that is readable and writable.
- Memory 615 comprises a calibration module 630, a filtering module 635, a current 3D field sample 640, orientation sample(s) 645, buckets of 3D field samples 650, a transformed 3D field sample 660, and a 3D application 665.
- the calibration module 630, filtering module 635, and 3D application 665 are implemented in this example as software (e.g., or firmware) comprising instructions and the instructions are loaded into memory 615 and executed by the processor 610.
- Processor 610 could be a general purpose processor, a digital signal processor, or any type of device suitable for executing instructions.
- the current 3D field sample 640 is transformed by the calibration module 630 into a transformed 3D field sample 660, which is used by 3D application 665.
- the 3D application 665 is any application that can use 3D information.
- the buckets of 3D field samples 650 contain three buckets (not shown), each of which contains selected 3D field samples, as described above in reference to FIGS. 4 and 5.
- the filtering module 635 is used as described above to filter 3D field samples for placement into the buckets of 3D field samples 650.
- Portions or all of the filtering module 635 and the calibration module 630 could be combined, if desired. Additionally, the filtering module 635 and calibration module 630 could act on 3D field samples 130 and orientation samples 420 that have been previously determined and stored for later analysis.
- calibration module 140 and filter module 430 may be implemented as software, firmware, hardware (e.g., discrete components that make up a circuit, an integrated circuit implemented on a semiconductor, and a programmable logic device), or some combination of these.
- hardware e.g., discrete components that make up a circuit, an integrated circuit implemented on a semiconductor, and a programmable logic device
- the various blocks of the flow diagrams of FIGS. 3 and 5 might represent program steps, or interconnected logic circuits, blocks, and functions, or a combination of program steps and logic circuits, blocks and functions for performing the specified tasks.
- the disclosed invention may be implemented as a signal bearing medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a processor to perform operations described herein.
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